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Solidarity Reporting on Marginalization: A Grounded Alternative to Monitorial Reporting’s Emphasis on Officials

Anita Varma

Journalism Practice (2023), 17 pp.

"A dominant monitorial reporting method means that journalism shines a spotlight on officials’ activities, plans, and statements. While this reporting method has brought official wrongdoing to light, monitorial reporting has also participated in amplifying, emphasizing, and normalizing problematic ... more

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Media & Mental Health: Using Mass Media to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness

Scott Parrott

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 166 pp.

"The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other ... more

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Boundaries, Barriers, and Champions: Understanding Digital Security Education in US Journalism Programs

Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Martin Shelton

Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 3 (2023), pp. 309-328

"Journalists are increasingly attacked in response to their work yet they often lack the necessary support and training to protect themselves, their sources, and their communications. Despite this, there has been limited scholarly attention that addresses how journalism schools approach digital secu ... more

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Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa

Maria Repnikova, Keyu Alexander Chen

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 15-31

"This article examines China–US competition for narratives by analyzing whether and how Chinese and American diplomats engage each other in routine diplomatic outreach to African audiences on Twitter. Drawing on case studies of Kenya and South Africa, our study uncovers “asymmetrical discursive ... more

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Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany

Efrat Nechushtai

Digital Journalism, volume 11, issue 10 (2023), pp. 1906-1923

"Increasing levels of toxicity, harassment, trolling, and doxxing targeting journalists are a global problem that adversely affects journalism and democratic life. This study offers a comparative analysis of journalistic responses to online violence in the United States and Germany, based on 87 inte ... more

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Among U.S. Latinos, Catholicism Continues to Decline, But is Still the Largest Faith

Jens Manuel Krogstad, Joshua Alvarado, Besheer Mohamed

Pew Research Center (2023), 22 pp.

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Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it

Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jakob Svensson (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 288 pp.

"This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital ... more

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Harassment’s Toll on Democracy: The Effects of Harassment Towards US Journalists

Kaitlin C. Miller

Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 8 (2023), pp. 1607-1626

"Journalists in democratically “free” countries have faced harassment from those external to the newsroom for decades, though that has recently increased in the United States by many accounts. To assess the effects of such harassment in the United States, 32 journalists were interviewed and more ... more

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Sesame Street: A Transnational History

Helle Strandgaard Jensen

New York: Oxford University Press (2023), xii, 274 pp.

"Sesame Street tells the history of how the American show became a global brand. The book argues that because domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity forcefully marketed all over the world. It is based on archival research in seven countrie ... more

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Whistleblowing

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 73, issue 33-34 (2023), 48 pp.

"Das gezielte Aufdecken geheimer Informationen durch Insider („Whistleblowing“) wird innerhalb von Unternehmen, Organisationen und Behörden oft kritisch gesehen, die Enthüllung von Staatsgeheimnissen häufig sogar strafrechtlich verfolgt. Auch demokratische Rechtsstaaten tun sich schwer mit Wh ... more

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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression

Saskia Witteborn

Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.

"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh ... more

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Handbuch Zeitschriftenforschung

Oliver Scheiding, Sabina Fazli (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 627 pp.

"Wie werden Gesellschaften in Zeitschriften betrachtet und welche Übersetzungsleistungen bieten jene in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Kontexten? Um diesen Fragen nachzugehen, analysieren die Beiträger*innen des Bandes das Zusammenspiel von Textgestaltung, Design, Inhalten, Infrastrukturen u ... more

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Disputed archival heritage

James Lowry (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 342 pp.

"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.

"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit ... more

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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19

Clare Birchall, Peter Knight

London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 237 pp.

"Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK. The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politic ... more

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Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Izabella Main (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 196 pp.

"This open access book brings into dialogue migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Migration has always been part of spiritual development. The current 'refugee crisis' has brought to the fore debates regarding the ... more

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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

J. P. Messina (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2023), viii, 153 pp.

"This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explo ... more

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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19

Nils Ringe, Lucio Renno (eds.)

London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.

"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ ... more

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Podcasting as an intimate medium

Alyn Euritt

London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 152 pp.

"This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast cr ... more

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Disputed Archival Heritage

James Lowry (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.